# 労働安全衛生法 / Industrial Safety and Health Act — 第九十九条 (Article 99) - Law: 労働安全衛生法 (Industrial Safety and Health Act), 昭和四十七年法律第五十七号 - English title "Industrial Safety and Health Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第九十九条 (Article 99) — address `art-99` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-99 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-99 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第九十九条 art-99 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-99 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-99 **第一項** 都道府県労働局長又は労働基準監督署長は、前条第一項の場合以外の場合において、労働災害発生の急迫した危険があり、かつ、緊急の必要があるときは、必要な限度において、事業を行う者に対し、作業の全部又は一部の一時停止、建設物等の全部又は一部の使用の一時停止その他当該労働災害を防止するため必要な応急の措置を講ずることを命ずることができる。 art-99/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-99/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-99/par-1 In a case other than the one prescribed in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, if there is an imminent danger of the occurrence of an industrial injury and there is an urgent necessity to do so, the Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau or the Chief of the Labour Standard Inspection Offices may order a person conducting a business, to the extent necessary, to temporarily stop all or part of the work or to temporarily stop the use of all or part of the construction, equipment, or raw material, or to take other temporary measures necessary to prevent that industrial injury. machine translation, not official **第二項** 都道府県労働局長又は労働基準監督署長は、前項の規定により命じた事項について必要な事項を作業従事者に命ずることができる。 art-99/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-99/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-99/par-2 The Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau or the Chief of the Labour Standard Inspection Offices may order persons engaged in work to do the necessary things in connection with the things ordered pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-99/par-1: 前条第一項 → 労働安全衛生法 第九十八条第一項 (Article 98, paragraph (1)), art-98/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-98/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-98/par-1 - art-99/par-2: 前項 → 労働安全衛生法 第九十九条第一項 (Article 99, paragraph (1)), art-99/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-99/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-99/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働安全衛生法 第九十九条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-99/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-99/par-2 - 労働安全衛生法 第百十九条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-119/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-119/par-1/item-2 - 労働安全衛生法 第百二十条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-120/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-120/par-1/item-2 - 労働者派遣事業の適正な運営の確保及び派遣労働者の保護等に関する法律 第四十五条第十五項（労働安全衛生法の適用に関する特例等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/worker-dispatch-act/art-45/par-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/360AC0000000088/art-45/par-15 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 労働安全衛生法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/347AC0000000057/20261001_507AC0000000033), retrieved 2026-10-17 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Industrial Safety and Health Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3440/tb), retrieved 2026-10-17 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch industrial-safety-and-health-act-20261017T182624-005, translated 2026-10-18 - This site's parser, version 209 — 労働安全衛生法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17